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European Commission Directorate-General for
Energy and Transport
Introduction of the Digital Tachograph By Leo
Huberts (EC-DG TREN)
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Scope of the presentation

• Introduction of the digital tachograph
• In the EU Member States
• In the AETR contracting parties

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EU introduction

• Introduction of the digital tachograph
• in the EU Member States

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EU History

• 1992 Commission launches Tachosmart
• 1998 Council regulation (EC) No 2135/98
• 2002 Commission regulation (EC) No 1360/2002
  (Annex 1B)
• 1 May 2006 mandatory introduction in the EU

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Regulation 2135/98

• Council Regulation (EC) No 2135/98
• Amends Council Regulation 3821/85 on recording
  equipment in road transport (analogue tachograph)
• Introduces basic provisions for new digital
  recording equipment with mass memory (VU) and
  smart cards
• Mandates Commission to define technical
  requirements, assisted by MS Regulatory Committee

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Regulation 2135/98

• Council Regulation 2135/98 Objectives
• Improve enforcement
• Enhance fair competition
• Increase road safety
• Maintain satisfactory social standards
• Whereas blatant infringements and fraud present
  a road safety hazard and are unacceptable for
  reasons of competition for the individual driver
  who does respect the rules

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Annex 1B

• Annex 1B (Commission Regulation (EC) No
  1360/2002)
• Technical specifications for the digital
  tachograph
• Date of publication 5/8/2002

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Timing

• Council Regulation 2135/98 Article 2
• 24 months from the date of publication of techn.
  specs (Annex 1B) vehicles put into service for
  the first time must be fitted with the digital
  tachograph
• 21 months from the date of publication of Annex
  1B Member States shall take measures to ensure
  that they are able to issue driver cards
• Date of publication Annex 1B 5 August 2002
• Mandatory introduction 5 August 2004?

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Timing

• Problems
• No type approved VU and/or cards available
• Tests performed by vehicle manufacturers
• April 2004 Commission moratorium until 5/8/2005
• June 2004 Council includes 5/8/2005 as the new
  introduction date in proposal on new social rules
  in road transport (regulation 561/2006)
• Certain Member States need more time to put in
  place legislation and practical arrangements
• July 2005 Commission period of tolerance until
  31/12/2006
• August 2005 legal deadline of 5/8/2005 overtaken
  by events

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Final introduction

• 11 April 2006 publication of the new regulation
  on certain social aspects relating to road
  transport (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006)
• including new date for the mandatory introduction
  of the digital tachograph 1 May 2006

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Main characteristics

• Records and stores drivers activities
• Works with 4 types of smart cards
• Is highly secured
• Records data which can also be used for fleet
  management
• Will be used by law enforcement authorities to
  control drivers on the road and in the companies

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Scope

• Trucks weighting more than 3,5 tonnes
• Buses having more than 9 seats

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System components
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Enforcement electronic downloading
Data can be downloaded by control officers if
issued with control cards
Connector
Cable
Control card
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Enforcement - printouts

• Alternative for the control officers to get
  access to the recording equipments and cards
  data printouts
• 6 types of print-outs, which can be selected
  through the recording equipment
• 2 relate to the drivers activities one comes
  from the recording equipment, the other one from
  the driver card
• 2 relate to the events and faults one from the
  recording equipment, the other one from the
  driver card
• 1 concerns the technical data (vehicle, recording
  equipment, etc)
• 1 concerns the over speeding.

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Enforcement - printouts
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Member States obligations

• To issue cards (for drivers, companies, workshops
  and control officers) regulation 2135/98
• To approve workshops (for calibration and repair
  of the digital tachograph) regulation 2135/98
• To train and equip control officers directive
  2006/22
• by means of the adoption of the necessary legal
  and practical arrangements

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Member States obligations/tasks (derived)

• To issue a security policy
• To distribute security keys
• To enforce the drivers hours rules
• Data protection
• Tachonet
• System maintenance (risk management)

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State of implementation

• All EU Member States are ready, except GR, BG and
  RO
• legal and practical arrangements
• issue cards
• approve workshops
• train and equip control officers
• Focus on enforcement !

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Implementation support

• MIDT project (Monitoring of the Implementation of
  the Digital Tachograph) by SRA
• The European Root Certification Authority (ERCA)
  by EC-JRC
• The Laboratory for Interoperability Certification
  by EC-JRC
• TACHOnet by EC-DG TREN

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MIDT project

• Monitoring of the Implementation of the Digital
  Tachograph (MIDT)
• Websitewww.eu-digitaltachograph.org
• Legislation
• Full description of the digital
  tachograph/tachograph cards
• Implementation in Member States
• Points of contact
• News
• FAQ
• Help desk
• Risk management procedure
• Secure area for Member States experts

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EC Joint Research Centre

• EC JRC manages, in association with EC DG TREN,
  two major services requested by the current
  European legislation on the Digital Tachograph
• The European Root Certification Authority
  (ERCA)
• The Laboratory for Interoperability
  Certification

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ERCA

• Major tasks of ERCA (JRC) include
• Review and approval of the Member State Security
  Policies,
• Root Key maintenance operations,
• Key certification operations,
• Security management activities,
• Liaison with MS Authorities and participation in
  the MIDT project
• Task DG TREN
• Identification Member State Authorities

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Interoperability certification

• one of three certifications required for type
  approval of digital tachograph equipment. (The
  other two certifications concern functional
  testing, and security evaluation.)
• Interoperability certification ensures that
  equipment put on the market will work together
  with equipment produced by other manufacturers.

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Tachonet

• EC created TACHOnet (in cooperation with EU
  Member States)
• To ensure that a driver does only hold one
  tachograph card
• To overcome this major issue between MS, it has
  been decided to
• create a network interconnecting all the MS
  national administrations
• in charge of issuing tachograph cards to their
  respective truck
• drivers aiming at
• facilitating the data exchange between Member
  States
• guaranteeing the uniqueness of the driver card
• ensuring that the card is valid for instance
  during a road check
• The TACHOnet system is owned by the European
  Commission

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Obligation of Member States analogue tachograph
Manufacturers
Type approval
Control bodies
Transport companies
Drivers
Fitters Workshops
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Obligation of Member States digital tachograph
Manufacturers Card / VU / Sensor
Security Management
Type approval

• (Security) Personalisation

Card Issuing
Control Bodies
Control Card
TACHOnet
Data protection
Workshops
Transport companies
Fitters
Company Card
Drivers
Driver Card
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AETR introduction

• Introduction of the digital tachograph
• in the non EU-AETR Member States

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AETR history

• 2000 start of negotiations to incorporate EU
  legislation on digital tachograph into AETR
• Oct. 2004 amendments adopted by UN-ECE Inland
  Transport Committee
• June 2005 amendments sent for ratification to
  UN-headquarters N.Y.
• Ratification process delayed due to communication
  NL acceptance of proposals as soon as
  conditions for such acceptance are fulfilled
• Acceptance proposals by NL on 16 March 2006
• 16 June 2006 entry into force of amendments

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Timing

• Article 13 introduction schedule
• All the new provisions of the present Agreement,
  including its Annex and Appendices 1B and 2,
  relating to the introduction of a digital control
  device, shall become mandatory for countries
  which are Contracting Parties to this Agreement
  at latest four years after the date of entry into
  force of the relevant amendments resulting from
  the procedure specified in article 21. In
  consequence, all vehicles covered by this
  Agreement, put into service for the first time
  after the expiry of this period, shall be
  equipped with a control device conforming to
  these new requirements. During this four-year
  period, Contracting Parties, which have not yet
  implemented these amendments in their countries,
  shall accept and control on their territory
  vehicles registered in another Contracting Party
  to this Agreement, which are already equipped
  with such a digital control device.
• 2. (a) The Contracting Parties shall take the
  necessary steps to be able to issue the driver
  cards referred to in the Annex to the present
  Agreement, as amended, at latest three months
  before the expiry of the four-year deadline
  referred to in paragraph 1.
• (b) Pending the issue by Contracting Parties of
  the cards referred to in (a), the provisions of
  article 14 of the Annex to this Agreement shall
  apply to drivers who may be required to drive
  vehicles fitted with a digital control device in
  accordance with Appendix 1B to this Annex.

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Transitional provisions

• Article 14
• Pursuant to article 13, paragraph 2 (b) of the
  Agreement, drivers who are driving a vehicle
  registered in a Contracting Party and to whom the
  competent authorities have not yet been able to
  issue the driver cards and who, during the
  transitional period referred to in paragraph 1 of
  this article, drive in international traffic with
  a vehicle fitted with a digital control device in
  accordance with Appendix 1B to the Annex, must be
  able to produce, whenever an inspecting officer
  so requests, the printouts and/or the record
  sheets for the current week and, in any event,
  the printout and/or record sheet for the last day
  on which he drove during the previous week.
• Paragraph 1 does not apply to drivers of vehicles
  registered in a country where it is obligatory to
  use a driver card. However, drivers shall produce
  printouts whenever an inspecting officer so
  requests.
• The printouts referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
  marked with the details that enable the drivers
  to be identified (name and number of the driving
  licence), including their signature.

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Summary introduction schedule

• As of 16th June 2010, the digital tachograph
  will become mandatory for new vehicles
  registered in the non EU-AETR countries.
• Non EU-AETR countries have to start issuing
  cards 3 months before this deadline, i.e. 16th
  March 2010

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Summary transitional provisions

• Until 16 June 2010, non EU-AETR countries who
  have not yet implemented the system, shall accept
  and control on their territory digital
  tachographs and tachograph cards used by
  transport companies and drivers coming from a
  country where their use is already mandatory
• During the 4 year transitional period, AETR
  countries have to accept drivers coming from non
  EU-AETR countries using digital tachographs
  without driver cards. Such drivers must produce
  printouts instead.

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Practical issues

• Non EU-AETR contracting parties have (only) 3
  years to set up a digital tachograph system
• MIDT work package support of the UNO-AETR
  Secretariat and of the AETR Contracting Parties
  through the UNO-AETR Secretariat
• CORTE support of the UNO-AETR Secretariat and of
  some non EU-AETR Contracting Parties (experts
  visits to some of these countries)
• Expectation some EU Member States/private
  companies may help these countries to put in
  place a card issuing system

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Practical issues

• Non EU-AETR transport companies will buy
  vehicles equipped with digital tachographs (first
  or second hand)
• If they do, how to ensure that their digital
  tachographs are fully calibrated?
• Why calibration?
• Printouts produced to control officers during
  that period of time where cards are not available
  will not be considered as valid if coming from a
  non calibrated VU

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Practical issues

• Calibration of digital tachographs fitted in non
  EU-AETR vehicles
• No workshop card no calibration no use of
  digital tachograph
• Flexible approach
• First calibration to be performed during the
  first international journey of the vehicle in
  question in a (EU) country which is able to
  calibrate digital tachographs
• Following calibrations (e.g. in case of
  breakdown) to be performed en route during
  international journey